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FRIEDRICH, Caspar David: Winter Landscape with Church

🖼 Winter Landscape with Church, 1811
Oil on canvas
33 × 45 cm
Dortmund, Germany

Muted grays and browns dominate a desolate winter scene where a solitary church spire pierces the frozen landscape, rendered with Friedrich's characteristic atmospheric depth. The composition embodies Romantic longing for spiritual transcendence through nature's isolation and melancholy.

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